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AFRICAN ANT ARMIES.
The Cruel Manner in Which the Kafir
Sometimes Punish Their Enemies.

The Cruel Manner in Which the Kaf1rs
Sometimes Punish Their Enemies.
The termites, or white ants, build
for themselves houses or hills of an
average height of three feet above the
ground and three feet in diameter at
the base. conical in shape, and some
times adorned with one or two pima
cles. In rare cases the hills rise to a
height of four or five feet, the sub
stance of which they are constructed,
earth mixed with a. secretion from their
own bodies, being as hard as cement.
Mixed with water it is used as mortar
in laying brick, and as a covering for
the floors of Kafir kraals and the houses
of the Dutch inhabitants. 1t makes
strong water and damp proof floor. The
ant houses in the interior are divided
into apartments connected by gall
leries. The ants have among them
selves regular guards and soldiers,
who, when a breach is made in their
dwelling, rush forth in it's defense and
muster the working ants, who, curious
ly enough, are without eyes. to. repair
the damage, and in surprisingly short
time the swarms of ants will have eff
fected all repairs and everything will
be right and quiet again. An animal
dies on the Veldt, soon the vultures
will have torn off his hide, and devour
all of it excepting the bones, then the
ants in their turn clean and polish
those so that within twenty-four hours
after death there will remain only the
bones, smooth and polished inside and
out, and what was thu day previous a
living animal is now a. disjointed and
whitened skeleton.
These ants are most destructive to,
every thing wooden. They attack and
eat the door and window frames, floor
timbers and floors of houses, making
no show of their ravages on the ex-
terror, but devouring the wood until
there remains only shell. and, to the
surprise of the dweller, the slanaming
of door or the dropping of window
may result in the total collapse of its
frame, which falls in cloud of dust.
The black ants make most remarkable
Journeys or migrations, and when on
the road travel in immense numbers
in body from a foot to several yards
in width, and being from half an hour
to an hoar passing a given point. In
these Journeys they turn neither to the
right hand nor the left. stopping only
when coming to water. Amy obstruc-
ton like house or tree they pass over
swarming up one side and down tho
other. Should they find an open door
or window, woe be to that
house. The Kafirs in their
crneT manner of Furnishing their enc
mics sometimes fasten the poor vic
tim to the ground in the way OF these
ants, and he is almost devoured before
life becomes extinct. The insects will
not leave the body until every bone is
polished. The ant hills are to a tray
eler useful in one way. BY scooping
out one side and part of the interior
and making fire in the cavity he has
q most excellent oven, which retain.
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PRESS PARAGRAPHS.

Blaine is evidently a sinking
ship. Wharton Barker, of Pennsyl-
vania, has deserted him, and it is said
the clan Cameron of the same State has
followed suit, and will sound the slo-
gan for Sherman.-Detroat Free Press.
Death has removed several
stumbling blocks from the path OF
James G. Blaine. Mr.. Arthur's influ-
ence in New York would have been
against him. General Logan would
have been formidable rival. Beech
er's eloquence would have been found
on the other side, and even Eben F.
Pillsbury, who has just died, was foe
who was not to be despised. Still
there are a few people left who will de-
muir when the magnetic man assumes to
take the lead again--Chicago Herald.
The river and harbor bill which
died in the Presidents hand this year
was monster in some respects. As it
came from the House of Representa-
tives it appropriated 100000 for
what seemed like judicious improve
ment of the rivers. coasts and har-
bors But in the hands of the Senate
the measure was recast, the amounts
appropriated largely increased, and a
large number a them introduced that
looked wonderfully like big jobs. In
this shape it was completed and in
this shape it died.-Harrisburg Patriot.
The importantly of office-seekers
and their friends has always been a
nuisance, but now that it has become
concentrated upon few men, such as
the Commissioner of Patents, the Com.
missioner of Agriculture, and the Chief
of the Bureau of Printing and Engrav-
ing, who are unable to hide behind the
Civil-Service act, it is cause of irrita-
ton so intolerable as to drive from or
keep out of the service any one who
wishes to discharge his duties faith
fully and at the same time to live, in
peace with his fellow men.-A y
Post.
-Conkling and his stalwart fol-
lowing, SO it is limited. will not sup
port Sherman if he is the Republican
Presidential nominee. The stalwart
ring of the Republican party is a
recognized power in New York poll
ties, though not SO effective in the way
of Furnishing political enemy ss the
Mugwump, for the reason that the
Mugwump is more Independent and
less loyal to party. With the stall
warts against Sherman, the Mug
wumps against Blaine. the Jay Goulds
against Gresham, the Republicans will
be put to their trumps to make re-
spectacle nomination. - Des Moines
Leader.
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NATURES CHORUS.

Ben: Perley PORES Poetic Enusion on
Spring Music from Brook and Hedge
row.
The unwritten music of spring viii
soon be heard, proceeding from every
living thing in the air and among the
reeds of the brook just listen! There
is an old bull-frog on the margin of
the stream, with one leg in the waters,
by way of cooler. How he thrums
away on his bass-viol: ''Thung, thong.
thong, thang, thing. poutchungr' The
little frogess opposite plays the treble
to charm, without scarce opening her
mouth: ''Te-neet, te-neet, hire, irr, irr,
te-neet!" And down she darts into the
| water, her great toe awfully man.
gled with stone from some
cruel boy; but. boys, this is wrong.
Then there is the old leader, that
green-eyed monster! dressed in yell
low breeches and white sash around
him. Hear him as he stands up so
majestlcally against that reed
Paddy got drunk, Paddy got drunk.
got drunk, oonk, unk." And down
he goes to wet his whistle. Then fiut--
tiers chattering chorister overhead,
calling upon his tribe to 60 and watch
their sick mates-'.Bebolink, bobolink,
stingy, stingy; so sweet, sweet, she'll
die soon; oh, dear!'' ..Pshaw, pshaw,
chuck!" thrills the brown thrasher.
New, NEW, mew." squeaks the cat.
bird. "Who, whip-poor-willp' cries
one. "Katy-did, Katy-did," trills an
other. :Fl come and see, will, will,
WILL" sings the yellow bird. And so
sing they all in their 'unwritten music,
without, perhaps, a discordant note.
Soon our old friend, Robert Lincoln,
better known as Bob Lincoln, or Bob
Link, will return to us. As I write !
can imagine that / see one of these
native musicians on the topmost
bough of an apple tree, shaking his
his variegated sides with laughter. and
amusing himself in tuning his pipes, as
it were, to catch the right pitch; at
times striking ''B and E fiat" and
again semi-tone approaching 20
sharp" wearing as usual, the summer
costume of his father and grandfather,
and I do not know but that of his great
lOOt UldCk SttlH NcSU dHu
pantaloons and white roundabout
jacket. Soon his old favorite, Mary
Lincoln, in dark russell mourning
dress, starts up from bush or tuft of
high grass on q shopping excursion,
when Robert" alive to the duties Of
gallantry, instantly offers his services.
''wingfully' and ''songfully," and the
air at once is: filled with his delicious
melody, I'm linked sweetness long
drawn out.'' Yet there are people who
never listen to the singing of birds, but
who will pay large sums of money to
hear Italian or Germany opera singers
howl like boy who has eaten too many
green apples.-M Y Herald.
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PREPARING FOR THE INTERVIEW

PREPARING FOR THE INTERVIEW
member it great deal longer than he
will the more important episodes of his
later life. And l know one in particular
who will always remember his boyish
debut in the fishing line-I mean Tad
Thorne.
1t was the Saturday morning follow
ing Tad's peculiar introduction to Miss
Smith, and an unusually mild day for
a New England April, which uncertain
month is very apt to seem so much like
March Q. to resemble younger
brother.
Joe and Tad were digging bait in
Deacon Whitney's barn-yard; that is,
Joe did the digging while Tad placed
the angle-worms in round tin must
ard-box, with ventilating cover.
..Therer' said Joe, Strengthening up,
"and now, Tad-you plaguey old tat
tle-taler
Tad looked up in dire astonish-
ment; but the conclusion of Joe's SEN
tence was evidently not addressed to
himself.
1t was churning-day at Deacon Whit
news, and Joe's eyes were fixed on the
retreating form of Miss Smiths hired
help who had come over to bespeak
some buttermilk for Miss Smiths pig.
samantha Mason was given to gossip,
and Joe's guilty conscience at once
assured him that she had lost no time
in telling the story of his late humorous
performance to the deacon, Mrs. Whit
new and his sister Nell.
81 guess we'd better be off, re-
marked Joe, rather hastily; land, in
stead of going out the front way, Wen
take short cut down through the
fields. You've got your lines all
rightP'
Tad tapped his pocket significantly
.nd adjusted the tin-boX cover while
Toe was putting the shovel back in the
barn.
"Come on, then, Tad said his COM
panion, with an uneasy glance at the
hack kitchen, which Tad did not quite
understand. and with his words Joe
dodoed hastily behind the barn, fol-
lowed by Tad; but, alas! he was too
late!
From the open kitchen-window came
tho crv- in his sister Nells voice:
"Jo-seph!-come right into the house
father wants you!'
"Darn it all!'' muttered Joe. with a
v;ndictive kick at the fence-rall; now
I've got to catch it. ,
"Catch whatp" wonderingly asked
Tad though with an intuitive suspicion
that Zoe was not referring to the pros
MOTIVE catch of trout.
Toe did not reply, but with gloomy
and yengeful expression, skunk into the
harm bv the small rear door, followed
by his wondering companion. From
bsbind the corn-crib Joe hastily pulled
the bottom of an old pasteboard band
box.
..shove it up under my coat behind
-ouick, Tadr' he exclaimed. in an ag-
,tated whisper, land then you go ahead d
-o the brook-may be I can get on
b;me-by. 1t don't hurt much OF any
With this" added Joe, with rather
sickly smile, as he touched the small OF
his back significantly. "onlS I've got
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FOREIGN GOSSIP,

Prof. Turner. the Edinburgh anat-
! omist, gets twenty thousand dollars q
year, the highest salary paid any pro-
fessor in the world.
"A gallery of pictures and one hum
dred thousand dollars for the hospital
have been left to Rheims by native
and former merchant of that old town.
Three young women have started
a new review in Rome, with the object
of turning Italian women to seek active
life, rather than the seclusion of the
convent.
An English company has bought
the Casone and famous grotto of Ma
poleon I. in Corsica, and will establish
a winter station, casino hotel and villas
on the spot.
No monument to Garibaldi has yet
been erected at Naples. 1t is now pro-
St. Elmo, where it can be seen from all
parts of the eity.-M T. Independent.
The japanese Government has en-
gagged young lady of San Francisco to
organize school of domestic service at
TOXIC, to familiarize Japanese girls
with our customs.
A story is told Of the Importance
with which the condition of the
Sultan of Turkey is viewed by
his people. A Turkish journal gravely
prints one morning: ''His Majesty is
slightly indisposed, having been bitten
bv a mosuuito last night -
Princess Irene, the third daughter
of the late Princess Alice of England,
has been betrothed to Prince Henry,
second SON of the German Crown
Prince. He is known as the "Sailor
Prince and is soon to have the rank
of captain.
In Berlin it has been found tn at
the Museum of Decorative Art, which
was founded for the use of workmen in
the industrial arts, has been placed just
where real workmen can never use it
in the most aristocratic part of the
city.
"A society has been organized
among Japanese women to cultivate a
taste for foreign cooking. AS many
Japanese women of good birth are in
vited to dinner by Europeans in Yoko-
hama, Toxic and Nagasaki, they find it
very difficult to accept the inequalities
offered. Foreign art, however, has
already seriously injured the art of
Japan
1t has been calculated by French
Journalist that on the average an En-
glishman spends annually on books and
papers 11f. SIC, Frenchman IF. Sc,
while a German is content with what
literature may be purchased for IF. he.
The deduction made from these facts is
that Englishmen appreciate the power
and value of the press.
-Boycotting and outcasting are
made doubly oppressive to Hindoo
women, and for the most trif1ing rea-
sons. A married woman not putting
the sindoor Ga red powder) on the part
ing of her hair is boycotted. In the
country, if mother-in-law eats or.
lives in the house of her son-in-law be-
fore her daughter has child, she will
be at once boycotted. A young mar
ried Lady was boycotted for not observ-
ing some ceremony at the birth of her
child. A man can regain his caste by
performing the expiatory rites, but an
outcast woman, especially if she has
broken away from the zenana or asso-
ciated with non-Hindoos, is never,
taken back to her caste. James
G1zette
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the heat well. Ihave eaten often bread
and meat baked in these primitive but
good ovens. A popularity of these ants
is that on warm evening about the
middle of March millions of them with
wings-said to be the females-infest
the houses, attracted by the lights.
Their wings are light and gauzy. lasting
them for this night only. They drop
them off and disappear. have seen
flying ants so thick in billiard-room
as to put stop to the playing. and so
much of a nuisance as to drive people,
away from a dining-table.- South
africa Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
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CHAPTER VIII.

Who that was ever Il boy has forgot
ten, or will forget, his first fishing ex-
perience? No matter whether it was
angling for minnows from the wharf,
with a pin-hook, catching pumpkin
seeds from the mill-pond logs or fol-
lowing up an aldcr-fringed brook in
pursuit of trout-he will be sure to re-
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Adventures Of TAD;
HAPS AND MISHAPS OF A LOST SACHEI,.
OR THE -
a Story for Young and Old.

BY FRANK a CONVERSE.
AUTHOR OF PEPPER ADAMS" s.BLowN Our
TO SEA-" paul GRAFTON" ETC.
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CHAPTER VH.-CoNrINIrEn

copyrighted, 1856, by D. Lothrop O. Co.. and
Published By Special Arrangement
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EQUAL TO THE SITUATION.

Good gracious! had sturgeon or
young whale seized his bait! His line
went cutting through the dark waters,
and the top of the alder pole bent omi-
nously.
(To BE CONTINUED
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Meanwhile / am willing TO cOucede that
one Of the most admired and effective iea
lures of the art Of fist lighting, az prac
ticed during the last 100 years, may be Of
modern invention The very word box
is "a confirmation Of this view. IL Is de
rived from an old German noun signitying
check. and to box man meant to fetch
him a bang on the cheek or the ear ia
other words TO hit him a swinging or
roundabout blow Now this is the in
stinctive blow Of the uneducated fighter,
the reason being that a swinging blow
when 10 reaches its mark, is more telling
than a blow Of any other Kind. 1t IS en-
forced by the lateral swing and weight Of
the whole body; and when it arrives some
thing has to 20; sometimes il is the knuck
lc- sometimes il is the wrist but gener-
ally speaking il is the person who gets H..
The blow. however, is open TO two seri-
Gus objections. First, it is easily parted,
and in the second place it exposes the
striker toa detrimental retOrt. According
As science has dismissed it except IN spe
c.al predlcamentsi in favor of the strai sht
forward blow, which though lacking the
stunning impact of the other, is much
more difficult TO ward Off can be delivered
more swiftly, and does not so expose the
body 10 counter. Moreover, as regards
lbs inferior force that IS matter Of com
parati,cly small consequence. \ blow
between the eyes does hot need to be
heavy enough TO floor an OK IN order to be
effective Indeed it IS surprising how
effective reasonably light knock may be
ii delivered i'm the right way and on the
riqht place The trained prize tighter
may not much mind such blow; hut 10
the Impractical amateur it is full OF sig
nincance and persuasion II is enough
and enough is as good as a feast, not t.
speak OF a funeral Julian Hawthorne
I'm Ihe COsmopOIlAn.
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tered no word, then gave grunt OF salts
faction and lifting the helpless soldier to
his shoulder started away at rapid pace:
Dropping TO the ground, we were joined
by thc other member Of our squad, ana
the fOnr Of us started n pursuit OF the
mysterious stranger. Half mile up the
side OF the mountain the giant stopped,
pushed aside a small clump OF bushes and
entered n cave. We soon followed eau
tiouslv. for a. yet he had not discovered
that we were following him. Along
narrow passageway distance OF 100
feet we walked in complete darkness
when. turning suddenly 10 the left,
we found ourselves at the door
Of large rock chamber lighted
by single tallow candle. On the
floor, bound hand and foot and gagged,
lay our missing companions, while their
captOr stood near the light rubbing his
hands. his face distorted with a horrible
grin Of satisfaction lie discovered us at
the same instant that we covered him with
our muskets, and for several moments we
stood without uttering word. one look
at the wnd, bloodshot eyes OF our captive
told us that he was a maniac, and we de-
termined not TO harm him. lie made no
move, and whBe three of us kept him COW
cred with our guns the other cut the
cords which bound our companions. Then
we approached the wild eyed being, and,
after a long and desperate struggle, five Of
us were able 10 bind him sechcly. our
late captive comrades had an been cap
turcd in the same manner, by this mount
ain giant, and had been lying bound In
! his cave without food or drink.
We reached camp with orr prisoner
shortly before daylight, and the mystery
which had awed the entire army was
solved.
Next day some Of the people living in
| the neiQhbOrhoOd came TO camp and
identified our captive. His name was
John Hope. and he was born and reared
in the mountains Of East Tennessee
! When the war broke out he had a family
and lived in rude log cabin near the
/ summit Of Walden's ridge. Being loyal
| 90 the Union he left home 10 become a
scout in the Federal army. After one
Years absence he returned 10 find that
| several members Of his family had been
murdered the others driven from home
and his cabin burned 10 the ground by
bushwhackers. He became IA raving ma
niac and took up his abode in the cave on
| the mountain.
We fell back towards Chattanooga next
/ day and left our captive behind in charge
of some Of his former friends. A month
/ later we learned that be soon returned to
bis cave and was shortly Afterwards
killed in Il fight with bis old enemy the
bushwhackcrs w l. Ilawley in Atlanta
] Constitution
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The --latest contribution 10 the physician IN
fiction is the Strange Case of DR. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde, by Stevenson. Here are
illustrated thcNaricd phenomena presented
by circular insanity complicated by cpl
lepsy The peculiar drink used 10 effect
the change between two states the benev-
client but weak physician, the incarnation
of mahenaucy. Hyde and the exaggerated
physical changes, are but dramatic
touches The cOnyulsicn which precedes
the change is very true 10 nature The
picture of patient described by DR..
Coulston r'Mental Diseases would
answer well for Dr. Jckyll and Mr. Hyde,
if to il were added the malignancy Of cpl
lepsy and the tendency To moral deterio-
ration therefrom In the exalted state
the patient was spendthrift, dirty,
disorderly and malignant. Scarcely any
thing was homogeneous or disgusting TO
him. and lac sought all sorts Of low com
pany Ia the depressed state he was
scrupulous about dress, reticent, penu-
rious. benevolent, moral and religious.
ln mental epilepsy the difference is still
more marked, and is often attended by
what 10 the populace seem rs marked
physical changes as those occurring III DR..
JekSll's case Chicago Medical Standard.
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recognized In the materia medica; they eN-
hibt in a wonderful manner the beneficial re
suits OF their combination.
ase23 I'm THOMAS J. WILLIAMS, NJ. ID.
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japanese Potpourri.

There is a key in a Market street win
dow which hundreds Of people stop 10
look at every day. IL Is pretuy draped
la japanese silk and is filed with "Japa-
uese poVourri, a mixture that must be
new to most people. for nearly every one
asks II It is some extraordinary Kind OF
tca. The merchant smiles at this, for the
"potpouri' is a deliciously perfumed
mass Of driod rose leaves and buds, vio'
lets. lavender flowers sweet gums, etc,
and is used for filling japanese jars and
vases. and thus scenting the room. Phil
alqlDhia Times
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AT WAKING.

......t Weakened NJ the break Of DAY.
~ f.,r, r,y window looking forth have found
3. ,',,, and strange the hong familiar ground,
saw the mist glide slow away.
.i.,,. che hills ia vouted green array,
'..r. nom The stream sides and the groyea
around
c..nany q pcusivc day eutrcating sound,-
,.l.n i.le fields young life began 10 play.
..... b. even so when first we wake
.nI thc night ia which are merged all
nights
..... Steep heavy and forlorn viii ache,
r.sn- hcrscH mii alien sounds aud sights
.tl.a fhc gradual day with comfort break
l.. doe oli decrs ~ being. the old hoights'
Filth a. Thomas in Cosmopolitan.
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DIEDMONT AIRLINE.
RICHMOND AND DANyILLE SYSTEM
SHORTEST AND MOST DIRECT ROUTE
10 THE SOUTH.
PULLMAN sLEEPERS on ALL MONT
TRAINS.
SCHEDULE IN EFFECT NOV. -. 1887.
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The study Of astronomy is the latest fad
amoLg the women Of Paris.